"Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Parties Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Parties
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Parties Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Parties
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Parties The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Parties
"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Parties A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Parties
"One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Parties "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Parties
"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Parties Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Parties
The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Parties The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Parties
The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Parties It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Parties
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Parties Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Parties
If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
"There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Parties Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Parties
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Parties "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Parties
